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Don’t Starve Together – Wortox Character Guide

Introduction

Krampus’ partner in mischief and once an unperturbed Imp, joins the constant as a reformed soul. Wortox was introduced as a character very recently and can be unlocked via the Weave mechanic. He can be crafted for 2700 spools, which can be gathered by unravelling(dismantling) wardrobe items or heads of previously crafted curios.

Character Details

Wortox’s is able to collect souls from things that die around him. He can then use these souls for various purposes. He starts off with six souls in his inventory. Souls can be gathered easily by killing butterflies, moleworms and spiders. Wortox has a very big disadvantage when trying to recover from hunger by eating food. He recovers only by 50% of the usual but can be overcome by eating souls and managing sanity. Garland is a key items early on which costs just 12 flowers to craft. Later on once you find better weapons you can live off your souls by killing off the shadows. Once you have a few souls pick flowers or cook and eat green caps once your souls are at the maximum. Picking up an extra soul once the maximum has been reached, that is 20 souls, Wortox will drop half of his stash and lose sanity. Now lets get on to the benefits of the character, his abilities are as follows:

  • Eat Souls to recover Hunger
  • Release souls to heal Wortox and nearby players
  • Teleport short distances, even across untraversable land
  • Teleport to anywhere on map

Eat Souls to recover Hunger

Consuming a soul restores hunger at the cost of sanity for Wortox.

Release souls to heal Wortox and nearby players

After consuming a soul it can be released to heal nearby players for a certain amount of health depending on the number of players within the predefined range of healing.

Teleport short distances, even across untraversable land

Can jump across water and short distances on the currently displayed screen. The cursor first displays “Soul Hop”, teleporting a short distance will consume a soul and then the cursor will display “Soul Echo” for a short duration, which when used will teleport Wortox to the spot but won’t consume any soul.

Teleport to anywhere on map

After opening the map, hovering over it will show how many souls will be consumed and no souls will be shown if a sufficient amount is not present. To teleport, right click on the opened map and press the map key to close it this will the teleport Wortox to the spot you had right clicked on.

Conclusion

Souls can be used to recover from hunger at the cost of sanity but once you get efficient with killing the shadow creatures you will be able to gain the max amount of souls and then recover sanity by picking flowers, crafting garland and consuming cooked greencaps.

Focus on helping your team in gathering distant items. Wortox’s ability to jump across untraversable terrain and teleport to undiscovered regions on the map makes him a good character to scout the map and gather crucial resources while the team focuses on crafting and building. Make sure that you have a sufficient amount of souls before teleporting a huge distance or atleast make sure that you are equipped with a proper weapon that will help you dispatch enemies quickly to gain souls.

Wortox can support the team further by healing players in an area of effect and as the players kill enemies around him it will only further ease the burden of farming souls. Very helpful during enemies like hounds that attack in groups or some bosses that spawn mobs of lesser foes around the players.

Overall Wortox may not be a beginner friendly character as managing souls and his hunger requires a little bit of skill to dispatch enemies at the same time it requires you to carry on with the normal gameplay so beginners might get stuck in an infinite loop of recovering sanity then hunger.

Don’t Starve Together – Character Guide Wendy

Introduction

Into the constant spawns Wendy and her twin sister!!!

Wendy is the most easiest and fun character to play with, there is a small challenge at the beginning requiring the player to kill a creature to make he summonable. Easiest mob to kill is the butterfly as it sits on a flower. The second easiest mob to kill is the Moleworm place a flint on the ground wait for it to pop out, then kill it. The spider is a little bit difficult as its first attack needs to be dodged after which you can put it down easily with a few hits from an axe or a pickaxe. Pressing Shift+F is an easy way to force an attack on a nearby creature rather than clicking on it with the mouse. Abigail’s mode can be toggled between aggressive and passive by right clicking on the flower. The color and shape of the flower changes to red and sightly bloomed when she is summonable. Abigail has lesser HP on the day she spawns and it doubles the following day. She deals more damage at night.

Wendy on the other hand is dark and depressed and relates things to death. Apart from that there aren’t too many down sides. She is a very good support character especially when it comes to dealing with hordes and procuring huge amounts of meat with ease.

Abigail’s Pros

  • Abigail can take on a horde of frogs and spiders as she has an AOE attack thus making her an ideal character to gather meat
  • Can easily dispatch the waves of hounds with ease
  • Light source at night
  • Can be further buffed with the Sisturn and items crafted using Mourning Glory related recipes

Cons

  • Abigail doesn’t do well against higher level mobs
  • Wendy’s attack speed is slow
  • Need to micro manage Abigail during boss fights, dispelling her before she dies

Pipspook

Pipspooks are non aggressive mobs that spawn at graveyards with gravestones. Wendy can assist them by right clicking on them which will make them follow you. If you stand still it will move in the direction you are supposed to go, once you are near the location Wendy will inform the player as well as a radiating halo will appear over the Pipspook. As Wendy nears the invisible item it will come into focus as long as the Pipsook is near you. The frequency of the halo increases depending on Wendy’s proximity to the item, although it might not show at first if the Pipspook is too far. Each item drops a single Mourning Glory and the final item drops four.

Character Crafting

  • Abigail’s Flower – Craft Abigail’s Flower
  • Revenant Restorative – Triples Abigail’s health regeneration for a day
  • Spectral Cure-All – Healing regeneration rate increases by 20 per second for 30 seconds
  • Unyielding Draught – Increases the duration for which Abigail is immune to damage
  • Distilled Vengeance – Increases the damage immunity time for Abigail and returns damage
  • Nightshade Nostrum – Allows Abigail to deal the same amount of damage she deals at night
  • Vigor Mortis – Increases Abigail’s movement speed
  • Sisturn – Place four petals in it to buff Abigail

Tips

Let Abigail take the mob aggro after which you can follow up with attacks with Wendy.

Keep Beefalos away from her when they are in heat

Force attacking Aigail unsummons her

Stardew Valley – Fresh Start Guide

New to Stardew Valley? Returning back to check out the new update? Well don’t worry, here is a list of things that can help you with starting out on your first day at the farm. These are the little things that we tend to forget when returning to Stardew valley for a fresh start that may cause you to restart all over again.

The Mood Killer: Energy Bar

One of the most crucial aspects of the game and the one that is mostly overlooked till you are finally exhausted. Always keep an eye out for the energy bar, each little action that you perform will drain your energy. Don’t try to clear the farm on the first day itself instead do the following instead:

Step 1: Parsnip Seed Parcel

Enter the house and you will find a parcel of parsnip seeds, collect them and keep them in your inventory for now.

Step 2: North Exit

Clear a path towards the North Exit from which you can leave your farm. Make sure to clear on the small rocks and fallen branches so that you do not waste your energy.

Step 3: South Exit

Clear a path towards the South Exit from which you can leave your farm.

Step 4: Foraging

Now that the exits are cleared start venturing out to forage for collectibles like Dandelions, Horseradish and Clams.

Step 5: Wiggly Worms

If you notice Wiggling worms or Tendrils sticking out of the ground make sure to use a hoe to dig up some cool loot.

Step 6: Farming

Clear the area that is in front of your house to make a small farm, apart from the parsnips you might be able to find other seeds as well from digging the Wiggling Worms. Plant the seeds and make sure to water them.

Step 7: Storage Chest

Start cutting wood till you get 50 pieces to make your first storage chest, in order to store away the Scythe, Watering Can, Axe and other stuff that you may have picked up. This needs to be done since your backpack has only 12 slots in the beginning, which can be upgraded at the store later on once you have enough cash. If you run out of energy just go to sleep and continue the next day.

Step 8: Delivery

Just before making your way to bed, make sure to sell off your foraged items for some cash.

The Ultimate Run Killer: Time Exhaustion

At 12:00 am in the night you will receive a notification saying that it’s getting late, from this point onwards you have 2 in game hours and in real time that is 86 seconds. You will have to rush to your bed immediately before 2:00 am. If you collapse on the road you will end up losing items and the energy bar will be at the level it was the previous day. If you collapse in your house you won’t lose items but your energy won’t recover. The next day you will have to consume Field snacks at the least to restore your energy or you will have to sleep it off.

Tips

  • Don’t go to the beach on the first day instead forage the northern and eastern sides and the place at the Southern Exit from your farm. As you will have to go to the beach to collect the fishing rod the following day.
  • Make sure to keep the things you have in your backpack in your storage chest as it will hamper foraging.
  • Always carry the Hoe to dig up treasure and the pickaxe if you want to go to the mines
  • Collect seeds to make the field snack
  • Don’t waste your time trying to find all of the inhabitants of the village on the first day as you will meet most of them during the potluck ceremony and other events
  • Make sure to collect 300 wood to fix the bridge east of the beach